Stories from the front, and the back, and the side.

10: When teeter-totters are the messenger

Did you ever find yourself in your 20s making the same stupid relationship mistakes you were making in kindergarten? And yet you were just as astonished when you got dumped, I bet.

This month’s story goes deep into what it was like to be a kindergartner in my suburban Los Angeles hometown the same same year our older brothers were going off to war in Vietnam and the man who probably would have been president got killed within a marathon’s run from our school.

Then it goes to our nation’s capitol, where once again proof is offered that some people never learn. It’s enough to make a knucklehead do a double-take. And just for good measure, this podcast has an important safety tip about garbage disposals. You don’t want to miss that.